World on a String
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World on a String is a 1991 CD album
by Henry "Red" Allen. The album was originally issued on vinyl in 1957, with a slightly different track listing, as Ride, Red, Ride in Hi-Fi (RCA Victor RD-27045) by Henry "Red" Allen's All Stars".
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Henry "Red" Allen. The album was originally issued on vinyl in 1957, with a slightly different track listing, as Ride, Red, Ride in Hi-Fi (RCA Victor RD-27045) by Henry "Red" Allen's All Stars".
Track listing
- "Love Is Just Around the CornerLove Is Just around the Corner"Love Is Just around the Corner" is a popular song with music by Lewis E. Gensler and lyrics by Leo Robin, published in 1934. It was first introduced in the 1934 movie, Here Is My Heart, and also included in the 1935 movie, Millions in the Air....
" – 5:49 - "Let Me Miss You" – 5:31
- "Ride, Red, Ride" – 4:40
- "I Cover the WaterfrontI Cover the Waterfront (song)"I Cover the Watefront" is a 1933 popular song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman.The song was inspired by Max Miller's 1932 best-selling novel I Cover the Waterfront...
" – 8:25 - "'S Wonderful'S WonderfulS Wonderful" is a popular song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Funny Face by Adele Astaire and Allen Kearns....
" – 5:29 - "St. James Infirmary" – 3:45
- "Algiers Bounce" – 6:48
- "Love Me or Leave MeLove Me or Leave Me (song)"Love Me or Leave Me" is a U.S. popular song from the 1920s.The music was written by Walter Donaldson and the lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was introduced in the Broadway play, Whoopee!, which opened in December 1928...
" – 5:13 - "I've Got the World on a String" – 5:36
- "Ain't She SweetAin't She SweetAin't She Sweet was an American album featuring four tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 by The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan and cover versions of Beatles and British Invasion-era songs recorded by the Swallows...
" – 4:08 (music Milton AgerMilton AgerMilton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...
, lyrics Jack YellenJack YellenJack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
) - "Sweet Lorraine" – 5:34
Personnel
- Leader, trumpet - Red Allen
- Clarinet - Buster BaileyBuster BaileyWilliam C. "Buster" Bailey was a jazz musician specializing in the clarinet, but also well versed on saxophone...
- Tenor Sax - Coleman HawkinsColeman HawkinsColeman Randolph Hawkins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn"...
- Trombone - J. C. HigginbothamJ. C. HigginbothamJ. C. Higginbotham was an American jazz trombonist. His playing was robust and swinging.In the 1930s and 1940s he played with some of the premier swing bands, including Luis Russell's, Benny Carter's, Red Allen's, and Fletcher Henderson's. He also played with Louis Armstrong, who had taken over...
- Drums - Cozy ColeCozy ColeCozy Cole was an American jazz drummer who scored a #1 Cashbox magazine hit with the record "Topsy Part 2". "Topsy" peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100, and at number one on the R&B chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track peaked at #29 in the UK...
- Bass - Lloyd TrotmanLloyd TrotmanLloyd Trotman , born in Boston, was a jazz bassist who backed numerous jazz, dixieland, doo-wop and R&B artists in the 50s and 60s. He provided the famous bass line on Ben E. King's "Stand by Me"....
- Piano - Marty NapoleonMarty NapoleonMarty Napoleon is an American jazz pianist born in Brooklyn, New York, perhaps best known for having replaced Earl Hines in Louis Armstrong's All Stars in 1952. In 1946 he worked with Gene Krupa and went on to work with his uncle Phil Napoleon, a trumpeter, in Phil's Original Memphis Five...
- Guitar - Everett BarksdaleEverett BarksdaleEverett Barksdale was an American jazz guitarist and session musician, Harold Vick's most used guitarist....